{"product_id":"the-presidency-of-john-quincy-adams-9780700602728","title":"The Presidency of John Quincy Adams","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Presidency of John Quincy Adams\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hargreaves, Mary W. M.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780700602728.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adamss fame have, at the same time, virtually ignored his service in the White House. Critics, on the other hand, have described his administration as a failure, founded upon \"bargain and corruption\" and marked by exclusion of the United States from the British West Indian trade, the ineffectiveness of its efforts to promote strong Pan-American relationships, and the enactment of the \"tariff of abominations.\" Some analysts have even argued that it generated the sectionalism which terminated the \"Era of Good Feelings.\"\n\nMary Hargreaves contends, instead, that the basic effort of Adamss presidency was to harmonize divergent sectional interests. To ignore the Adams administrations commitment to nationalism, she argues, is to overlook a fundamental stage in the establishment of the federal government as guardian of the general interest.\n\nThe volume contains new information on the development of United States commercial policy, the nations early relationships with Latin America, and difficulties of local and regional adjustment to the growth of the national economy. It will be of keen interest to all students of the economic and political history of the early national period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987090305077,"sku":"ByrdShop_0700602720","price":41.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780700602728_7bd9940b-a914-4efc-8bde-7f6e1395cb5e.jpg?v=1792713796","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-presidency-of-john-quincy-adams-9780700602728","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}